GOTO w/ Python?
Delaney, Timothy
tdelaney at avaya.com
Mon Jun 24 20:23:06 EDT 2002
> From: Daniel Fackrell [mailto:dfackrell at DELETETHIS.linuxmail.org]
>
> After skimming the linked page to get a feel for the CAME
> FROM statement, is
> it conceptually different from short procedures? Does the
> only difference
> lie in the fact that for compiled languages one of the
> instances will be
> inline? I do understand that it would have some effect on
> variable scoping,
> but this can be easily handled in other ways.
>
> So what's the benefit that might outweigh the opacity of the
> code created?
I hope you're not serious ... :)
COME FROM is a joke. Literally. It is a parody of GOTO whose only redeeming
feature is that it is not GOTO.
Tim Delaney
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